This is deeply disturbing. I received this from an author I've never heard of (I looked him up before replying to be certain he is real & this wasn't just another kind of scam to get me to reply--because I've also received those). I am disgusted by this email that was supposedly written by ME.

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someday i might make a shirt of this. today's not that day. but you never know

thanks for the shout out! also, I would never have guessed you hadn't read Dennis Cooper before writing Fluids

It’s funny if you call PayPal or visa lines and bring this up asking why they claim “adult illustrations” is against their regulations but betting on the death of kids is totally fine. They don’t have an answer. In fact yall should call them at least once a day with this :)

I still like some of my old poems

What an incredible series of coincidences!

the history of music in the 20th century:

Long, firm, tubular body, DEEP blue eyes, really wonderful expression. he is so calm, confident, really in charge here. Big, bouncy ears, perfectly set, a slender, whippy tail, and of course, those smooth, vibrant ribbons. Best in show.

music + writing www.tumblr.com/flameswallow...

Cursed Morsels writer @flameswallower.bsky.social calls Gore Poetics "Some of my absolute favorite horror and horror-tinged SFF short stories from the past five years or so!" Want to see what the buzz is about? Snag @spicycloaca.bsky.social's debut: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/gore...

Maybe what people are reacting to here is that the Opinion Page has been driving the news organization(s) for decades now and it’s only led to everyone suffering with the exception of like 25 public masturbators who are constantly wrong about everything and are paid everyone else’s salaries.

#India’s first so-called “rehabilitation colony” for people displaced by climate change is not equipped to sustain its population of more than 17,000 people. Climate change, however, has made Bagapatia nearly uninhabitable. By Dimple Behal for @dialogueearth.bsky.social...

As an even modestly online person, much less a journalist whose entire career at this point occurs online, there is no plausibility to claiming you "didn't know what would happen" when you derisively put a trans woman without social capital or resources on blast.

i will probably never articulate this particular sub-suite of feelings any clearer

in my own opinion, this is one of the best stories i've written. i guess technically it's an odd duck for being "non-genre." smokeandmold.net/issue-5-fall...

white people and people in the global north (i say as both) like to act as if we're the only ones on the planet with the inner complexity to both Hate Our Governments and also Not Want Other Countries To Bomb Us About Our Bad Governments

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

I keep thinking about the people for whom $400K is a small number and how they are the reason people for whom it is a very big number have to hustle like this Please keep circulating this so that people who have $500 to spare see it

nobody: A cold solicitation letter arriving from the mysterious Dr. Montague:

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

we cannot let people trick themselves into believing that they were always against this. we must not allow them to erase the shame of the guilt that they should be burdened with for each subsequent morning for the rest of their lives.

There once was a man from Venus / Who had a lot of bizarre mutations permitting him to survive

Also people are often not even totally honest with themselves about why they do what they do, like human decision-making is extremely complicated and weird, a lot more will make sense if you internalize this

Something else I feel like a lot of people on here—and probably in general—struggle with is the fact that people basically never have only one motivation driving what they do, almost never even just two or three, and I think it would be very helpful if they could try to get better at it

I hate knowing someone I care about thinks they are too hard to love

the mild manners are job security, baby www.noncanon.com/comics/2026-...

Would deeply appreciate help. I am a disabled trans man from the global south. I am also the only person in my family who currently works. I have a life limiting condition that will end my life if not medicated. My insurance is only 350 usd a year, I dunno what else to do but ask for mutual aid

I really love being here on this earth. It’s so beautiful and humans are capable of such astonishing things & every culture is fascinating to me & the splendor of our natural world & the diversity of species is like an actual miracle. We must escape the Capitalocene and build something better.

please know that i believe in love, kindness, and homoerotic evisceration

"Gorgonland" is one of my favorite stories in Lupus in Fabula, and the reviewer Endwell on Storygraph agrees: "Absolutely perfect story, filled with the stifling cold of a relationship that won't last." Read this banger of a story and many more here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/lupu...

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Little Faerie from 2019 Maybe 4"x5"? watercolor / multimedia

On social issues specifically, Labour have shifted so far to the right that they could "move to the left" by adopting Theresa May's positions on immigration and trans rights, which is an absolutely unreal thing to be able to say of the architect of the Hostile Environment, and yet

if other powers dont want the US to obliterate any chance at a cooperative world order of any kind they need to issue sanctions against US industry. They need to isolate our leaders.

Apocalyptic beliefs allow for a paradigm in which “death is good,” which quickly slips into “it’s okay that we’re killing people.” We’re seeing a lot of that rhetoric in the US right now—whether it’s coming from belief in Christian nationalism or the AI singularity.

I keep thinking about a class on apocalyptic beliefs that I took in college. The two big takeaways were: - A sizable share of most human societies across history believed their generation would by the last - Those apocalyptic beliefs can be harnessed by those in power to justify lethal violence

My friend Gabby is looking for good homes for these darling babies

The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain. (Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

final February flash fiction up for FREE on my patreon! I think this one is very good. www.patreon.com/posts/151883...

Wise words

sometimes I think that popular accounts are acting like babies for posting bad takes and then getting mad at pushback, but I also underestimate how many people are actually doing full-on harrassment. If your reaction to someone being wrong is "I need to ruin them," you have a problem.

If you have a kitten who has never been given canned food or seen it happen, it still goes wild when it hears the sound of a can opener. This indicates that deep in the evolutionary past, cats hunted to extinction some type of robot containing fish

"United States President Donald Trump says the US has begun “major combat operations” in Iran after Israel also said it ⁠had launched missile attacks against the country. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards says it has launched first large-scale wave of retaliatory missile and drone strikes towards Israel."

I do think we’ve got a responsibility to really sit with the truth that some Trump administration things we’re horrified by were Obama administration things too, and we just didn’t listen.

swingers

heh, that was me this entire collection is exceptional, beautiful and haunting, and it is my great desire that other people read it so i can talk about it with someone

⬇️ ⬇️ start throwing money at indies across all artistic industries and not only will you start getting more stuff of actual quality, you will see a deluge of DIVERSE quality stuff too.